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The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia. Written by Sir Philip Sidney Knight. Now since the first edition augmented and ended; Arcadia
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Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586.; Sanford, Hugh, d. 1607.
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harte woulde euer haue yeelded to goe And if so I doe not rightlie tearme you all other wordes are as bootelesse as my deede miserable and I as vnfortunate as you wicked my Prince Musidorus I saye nowe that the vehement shewes of your faithfull Loue towardes mee haue brought my minde to answeare it in so due a proportion that contrarie to all generall rules of reason I haue layde in you my estate my life my honour it is your part to double your former care and make me see your vertue no lesse in preseruing then in obtaining and your faith to bee a faith asmuch in freedome as bondage Tender now your owne workemanshippe and so gouerne your loue towardes me as I may still remaine worthie to bee loued Your promise you Remember which here by the eternall giuers of vertue I coniure you to obserue let me be your owne as I am but by no vniust conquest let not our ioyes which ought euer to last bee stayned in our own consciences let no shadow of repentaunce steale into the sweet consideration of our mutuall happines I haue yeelded to bee your wife staye then till the time that I may rightly bee so let no other defiled name burden my harte What shoulde I more saye If I haue chosen well all doubte is past since your action onely must determine whether I haue done vertuously or shamefully in following you Musidorus that had more aboundaunce of ioye in his hart then Vlisses had what time with his owne industrie he stale the fatall Palladium imagined to bee the only relicke of Troies safetie taking Pamelas hand and many times kissing it What I am said he the Gods I hope will shortly make your owne eyes Iudges and of my minde towards you the meane time shal be my pledge vnto you your contentment is dearer to me then mine owne therfore doubt not of his mind whose thoughts are so thralled vnto you as you are to bend or slack them as it shall sâ—eme best vnto you You do wrong to your selfe to make any doubte that a base estate could euer vndertake so high an enterprise or a spotted minde bee hable to beholde your vertues Thus much onely I must confesse I can neuer doe to make the worlde see you haue chosen worthily since all the world is not worthy of you In such delightfull discourses kept they on their Iournye mayntaining their hartes in that right harmonie of affection which doth enterchangeably deliuer each to other the secret workinges of their soules till with the vnused trauaile the Princesse being weary they lighted downe in a faire thyckwood which did entise them with the pleasantnes of it to take their rest there It was all of Pine trees whose brodeheades meeting togither yeelded a perfit shade to the ground where their bodies gaue a spacious and pleasant roome to walke in they were sett in so perfet an order that euerie waye the eye being full yet no way was stopped And euen in the middest of them were there many sweete springes which did loose themselues vpon the face of the earth Here Musidorus drew out such prouision of fruites other cates as he had brought for that dayes repaste and layde it downe vpon the faire Carpet of the greene grasse But Pamela had much more pleasure to walke vnder those trees making in their barkes prettie knottes which tyed togither the names of Musidorus and Pamela sometimes entermixedly changing there to Pammedorus and Musimela with twentie other flowers of her trauiling fancies which had bounde them selues to a greater restrainte then they could without much painewell endure and to one tree more beholdinge to her then the rest she entrusted the treasure of her thoughtes in these verses DO not disdaine ô streight vp raised Pine That wounding thee my thoughtes in thee I graue Since that my thoughtes as streight as streightnes thine No smaller wound alas farr deeper haue Deeper engrau'd which salue nor time can saue Giu'ne to my harte by my fore wounded eyne Thus cruell to my selfe how canst thou craue My inward hurte should spare thy outward rineâ— Yet still fairetree lifte vp thy stately line Liue long and long witnesse my chosen smarte Which barde desires barde by my selfe imparte And in this growing barke growe verses myne My harte my worde my worde hath giu'ne my harte The giuer giu'n from gifte shall neuer parte Vpon a roote of the tree that the earth had lefte something barer then the rest she wrat this couplet SWeete roote say thou the roote of my desire Was vertue cladde in constant loues attire Musidorus seing her fancies drawne vp to such pleasaunt contemplations accompanied her in them and made the trees aswell beare the badges of his passionsâ— As this songe engraued in them did testifie YOu goodly pines which still with braue assent In natures pride your heads to heau'nwarde heaue Though you besides such graces earth hath lent Of some late grace a greater grace receaue By her who was O blessed you content With her faire hande your tender barkes to cleaue And so by you O blessed you hath sent Such pearcing wordes as no thoughts els conceaue Yet yeeld your graunt a baser hand may leaue His thoughtes in you where so sweete thoughtes were spent For how would you the mistresse thoughts bereaue Of waiting thoughts all to her seruice ment Nay higher thoughtes though thralled thoughtes I call My thoughtes then hers who first your ryne did rente Then hers to whom my thoughts a lonely thrall Rysing from lowe are to the highest bente Where hers whom worth makes highest ouer all Comming from her cannot but downewarde fall While Pamela sitting her downe vnder one of them and making a posie of the fayer vndergrowinge flowers filled Musidorus eares with the heauenly sounde of her musicke which before he had neuer heard so that it seemed vnto him a new assaulte giuen to the castle of his hart alredye conquered which to signifie and with all replie to her sweete noates hee sang in a kinde of still but rauishing tune a fewe verses her song was this and his Replie followes Pamela LIke diuers flowers whose diuers beauties serue To decke the earth with his well-colourde weede Though each of them his priuate forme preserue Yet ioyning formes one sight of beautie breede Right so my thoughts where on my hart I feede Right so my inwarde partes and outward glasse Though each possesse a diuers working kinde Yet all well knit to one faire end do passe That he to whome these sondrie giftes I binde All what I am still one his owne doe finde Musidorus All what you are still one his owne to finde You that are borne to be the worldes eye What were it els but to make each thing blinde And to the sunne with waxen winges to flie No no such force with my small force to trye Is not my skill or reach of mortall minde Call me but yours my title is most hye Holde me most yours
ground he had met with a great stone which by the hollow sound it yeelded seemed to be the couer of some greater vaut and vpon it a boxe of Cypres with the name of the valiant Aristomenes grauen vpon it and that within the box he found certaine verses which signified that some depth againe vnder that all his treasures lay hidden what time for the discord fell out in Arcadia he liued banished Therwith he gaue Damaetas certaine Medailles of gold he had long kept about him and asked him because it was a thing much to be kept secret and a matter one man in twenty houres might easily performe whether he would haue him go and seeke the bottome of it which he had refrained to do till he knew his mind promising he would faithfully bring him what he found or else that he himselfe would do it and be the first beholder of that comfortable spectacle No man need doubt which part Damaetas would choose whose fancie had alredy deuoured all this great riches and euen now began to grudge at a partenor before he saw his owne share Therefore taking a strong Iade loaden with spades and mattocks which he ment to bring back otherwise laden he went in all speed thetherward taking leaue of no body only desiring Dorus he would looke wel to the Princes Pamela Promising him mountaines of his owne labor which neuerthelesse he little ment to performe like a foole not considering that no man is to be moued with part that neglects the whole Thus away went Damaetas hauing alreadie made an image in his fancie what Pallaces he would build how sumptuously he would fare and among all other things imagined what money to employ in making coffers to keepe his money his tenne mile seemed twise so many leagues and yet contrarie to the nature of it though it seemed long it was not wearysome Many times he curssed his horses want of consideration that in so important a matter would make no greater speede many times he wished himself the back of an Asse to help to carrie away the new sought riches an vnfortunate wisher for if he had aswell wished the head it had bene graunted him At length being come to the tree which he hoped should beare so golden Akornes downe went all his instruments and forthwith to the renting vp of the hurtlesse earth where by and by he was caught with the lime of a fewe promised Medailles which was so perfect a pawne vnto him of his further expectation that he deemed a great number of howers well employed in groping further into it which with loggs and great stones was made as cumbersome as might be till at length with sweatie browes he came to the great stone A stone God knowes full vnlike to the couer of a Monument but yet there was the Cipres box with Aristomenes grauen vpon it and these verses written in it A Banisht man long bard from his desire By inward letts of them his state possest Hid heere his hopes by which he might aspire To haue his harmes with wisdomes helpe redrest Seeke then and see what man esteemeth best All is but this this is our labours hire Of this we liue in this wee finde our rest Who hold this fast no greater wealth require Looke further then so shalt thou finde at least A baite most fit for hungrâ—e minded guest He opened the box and to his great comfort read them and with fresh courage went about to lift vp that stone But in the meane time ere Damaetas was halfe a mile gone to the treasure warde Dorus came to Miso whom he found sitting in the chimneys ende babling to her selfe and shewing me all her gestures that she was loathsomly weary of the worlde not for any hope of a better life but finding no one good neyther in minde nor body where-out she might nourish a quiet thought hauing long since hated each thing else began now to hate her selâ—e Before this sweete humour'd Dame Dorus set himselfe and framed towardes her such a smiling countenance as might seeme to be mixt betwene a tickled mirth and a forced pittie Miso to whome cheerefulnes in others was euer a sauce of enuie in her selfe tooke quicklie marke of his behauiour and with a looke full of foreworne spite Now the Deuill sayd she take these villaynes that can neuer leaue grenning because I am not so fayre as mistresse Mopsa to see how this skip-iacke lookes at me Dorus that had the occasion he desired Truly mistresse aunswered he my smiling is not at you but at them that are from you and in deede I must needes alittle accord my countenance with other sport And therewithall tooke her in his armes and rocking her too and fro In faith mistresse sayd he it is high time for you to bid vs good night for euer since others can possesse your place in your owne time Miso that was neuer voide of mallice enough to suspect the vttermost euill to satisfye a further shrewdnes tooke on a present mildnes and gentlie desired him to tell her what he meant for said she I am like enough to be knauishly dealt with by that churle my husband Dorus fell off from the matter againe as if he had meant no such thing till by much refusing her intreatie and vehemently stirring vp her desire to knowe he had strengthned a credit in her to that he should saye And then with a formall countenance as if the conscience of the case had touched himselfe Mistresse sayd he I am much perplexed in my owne determination for my thoughts do euer will me to do honestlie but my iudgement fayles me what is honest betwixt the generall rule that entrusted secreacies are holilie to be obserued and the particuler exception that the dishonest secreacies are to be reuealed especially there whereby reuealing they may eyther be preuented or at least amended Yet in this ballance your iudgement wayes me downe because I haue confidence in it that you will vse what you know moderately and rather take such faults as an aduantage to your owne good desert then by your bitter vsing it be contented to be reuenged on others with your own harmes So it is mistresse said he that yesterday driuing my sheepe vp to the stately hill which lifts his head ouer the faire Citie of Mantinea I hapned vpon the side of it in a little falling of the ground which was a rampieâ— against the Sunnes rage to perceaue a yong maid truly of the finest stamp of beawtie that which made her bewtie the more admirable there was at all no arte added to the helping of it For her apparell was but such as Shepheards daughters are wont to weare and as for her haire it hoong downe at the free libertie of his goodly length but that sometimes falling before the cleare starres of her sight she was forced to put it behinde her eares and so open againe the treasure of her perfections which that for a while had in part hidden